Quotes About Cognition

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

Information work is thinking work.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

To make headway, improve your head.

Maybe if I point to my brain it will work.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.

Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

My memory stops at 14.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

I do think I have a lesser ability to remember facts and names than I have done previously, because you never have to store them; you just look them up again. I could make the same recipe 15 times, but I'll never, ever remember how to make it because I'll just look it up.